To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
PETRARCHAnd men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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